Sodom

Sodom was a kingdom in the Jordan Valley of southern Canaan. It was built upon a limestone and salt hill near Masada, and its inhabitants were said to be wicked and sinners before God exceedingly. Between 2100 and 1900 BC, the city was said to have been destroyed by a natural disaster, but the Bok of Genesis claimed that God had rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy the cities and exterminate their populations.